Beyond the Intellect

By Douglas M. Baker

BEYOND THE INTELLECT

Western culture exalts the function and importance of the intellect. Modern man reacts to the problems generated by a society increasingly complex by trying to refine and develop our intellectual tools to gain the answers. Knowledge gained via the intellect can only be of the external or not-self. For answers pertaining to the internal or one-Self, we must go beyond the intellect!

This masterly written book is likely one of Dr. Baker's most valuable gifts to all those seeking contact with their Soul or Higher Self. This major work is to facilitate step-by-step unfoldment from individuality to group awareness, from unconscious activity to conscious cooperation with your Higher Self and its purpose for you, the personality.

In today's language, aided by much personal experience and education, Dr. Baker explains the most abstruse esoteric subjects with a fantastic clarity that everybody will benefit from! He leads us beyond the intellect into the world of archetypes, myths, and the meaning of intuition. Detailed instructions are given on methods to establish a dialogue with the Self through which we can approach the Fifth Kingdom, that of the Soul, located beyond the intellect.

Seventy-five images, charts and drawings, many in color, will aid your understanding of this vast subject.

Foreword/Introduction is given by Count D'Angerville.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Baker eBooks Publishing
• Release date: Apr 17, 2022
• ISBN: 9781625690043

Douglas M. Baker

Dr. Douglas M. Baker. English born and raised in South Africa has done extensive scientific research into those hinterlands of the mind which one might call psi-semantics. He graduated in the Arts & Humanities in South Africa and qualified in medicine at Sheffield University (UK) in 1964. Having taught in the East End schools of London for 10 years, he began his tour of the Western world giving lectures and seminars in Esoteric Healing, Esoteric Anatomy, Esoteric Astrology, Esoteric Psychology, Esoteric Science and Metaphysics. He, more than any other, set in motion the trends towards alternative methods of medicine which have transformed that field in Britain today. As medical advisor to the De la Warr laboratories in Oxford, he undertook research into Biomagnetism and quantum physics their effects on the human aura and dark matter, producing the book by the same name in conjunction with George de la Warr. Through the years he has given more than 15,000 lectures and attracted people from all over the world to his Esoteric Science Festivals and International Summer Schools staged in America, Canada, England, Switzerland, Italy, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. His transformative experiences during the Second World War, when twice severely wounded, set the pattern for his life long investigations into the Powers Latent in Man. His extensive esoteric writings are said to be the largest collection in the world produced by a living author. He has written over 100 books, many of which have been translated into the 9 European languages at https://www.douglasbaker.com, and his list of downloadable MP3 audio lectures available at www.douglasbaker.org, include 500 live lectures given around the world and on a vast range of subjects. He has led the field in esoteric astrology, producing with a team, his magnum opus, a Dictionary of Astrology for the 21st Century in three volumes. This is in addition to the already existing 11 volume set of books on the same subject.

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Table of Contents

Beyond the Intellect

FOREWORD

MAN, MYTH AND THE UNCONSCIOUS

The Testimony Of Sanity

MATTER IS ENERGY

POST-MORTEM RESERVOIRS

The Unconscious And Its Parts

The Pre-physical Qualities Of The Unconscious

The Unconscious And Janus

The Silent Springs

THE NIRMANAKAYAS

Myths and Legends

THE YOUNGER GODS

AN EXPERIENCE BEYOND INTELLECT

HERCULES - SCORPIO ARCHETYPE

ARCHETYPES IN POETRY

THE ARCHETYPE OF PIETY

MYTH IN MODERN TIMES

The Myth Of Invincibility

THE SWEEP OF CONSCIOUSNESS

THE TENUOUSNESS OF CONSCIOUSNESS

THE AMOEBA ANALOGY

THE ANALOGY OF THE CAVE

LIFE VERSUS CONSCIOUSNESS

The Blending Of Life And Consciousness

FIRE AND KOILON

THE GOLIATH OF THE UNCONSCIOUS

ADDRESSING THE UNCONSCIOUS

The Midas Within

THE MUNIFICENCE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS

EXPLOSIVE EXPRESSION OF THE UNCONSCIOUS

THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE UNCONSCIOUS

THE OLD MAN OF THE SEA

MORSE CODE SYMBOLS USED

THE SPUR OF CONFLICT

THE ENTELECHY OF ARISTOTLE

BROACHING THE UNCONSCIOUS

Comments

THE MANY LAYERED UNCONSCIOUS

SPIRITUALISING COMPLEXES

THE MEDITATIVE WAY OF LIFE

Lessons On The Path

THE STORY OF JOHN

The Archetype Of Meaning

ARCHETYPE OF COURAGE

PRECEDENCE OF IMAGES

THE PSYCHOPOMP

PSYCHOPOMP AND CADUCEUS

THE BOY THAT WANTED AIR

ASK, AND YE SHALL RECEIVE.

Summary

The Energy Reservoirs of Nature

BUFFERING AGAINST STRESS

FELINE SYMBOLS

HISTORICAL EXAMPLES

The Soul As A Teacher

Crowding And Meditation

The Act Of Withdrawal

THE FACTOR OF DHARMA

THE PRESERVATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS

LAYERS OF MEANING

BEYOND THE INTELLECT

HOMEOPATHY

BIOMAGNETISM

FLOWERS FOR HEALING

HOW STONEHENGE WAS BUILT

THE NIRMANAKAYAS

OBSERVATION OF DEVAS

THE MOONS OF MARS

THE MARIE CELESTE

THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE

FIRE-WALKING

Beyond the Intellect

by

Dr. Douglas Baker

B.A., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., F.Z.S.

Copyright © 1979 by Douglas M. Baker

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This volume is dedicated to

Lady Aylwen

with appreciation

for her unfailing interest

and encouragement.

WE WISH TO THANK MIREILLE ZUPA OF THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN BUFFALO FOR PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE HER PAINTINGS.

FOREWORD

The publishers of this remarkable book have asked me to write a brief foreword to it, as I am acquainted with the author and, all my life, have had a deep interest in the esoteric and the study of persons gifted with occult powers.

My first meeting with Dr. Douglas Baker was after one of his lectures in central London. I had heard that he was a dynamic speaker and I was not disappointed. Shortly afterward I acquired his book Meditation, and the superiority of this over similar works was immediately apparent. It shows how the quality of life may be enhanced by the practice of meditation and explains the psychic laws by which contact may be made with the reservoirs of power around us.

To date, Dr. Baker has had published over thirty books. In all of these his deep knowledge is perceptible and indicates a source of inspiration derived from direct contact with a higher consciousness. He writes with clarity on the cosmic laws that underlie and govern human existence, and how one may apply these laws in daily life. Earlier writers on these subjects had often to obscure their teachings to fit the prejudices of the age in which they lived. The present author believes that the time has now come to release the facts of esoteric science to the seekers of the modern world.

For this purpose he has completed the series known as The Seven Pillars Of Ancient Wisdom. These books are essential reading for those who are searching for an answer to the profound mysteries of human existence and to the great questions confronting humanity on the purpose of life. The author has succeeded in the task of bringing up to date the recondite teachings of the occult and translating these into readable modern context. His medical studies over many years have equipped him with an advantage over his predecessors, and he is well qualified to expound with authority the esoteric laws as applied to the science of medicine and the evolution of man (vide: Esoteric Anatomy, Anthropogenesis, etc.)

If we seek stability and a sense of purpose in life, we have to develop inner resources to cope with the stress of the daily race against time. If we can learn to live with and obey the laws behind the planetary scheme and to replenish our sources of energy, we may survive. But, of course, we need to know what these laws are and how they may be harnessed.

The present book and others by this gifted author help us towards this understanding.

A few may be prepared to accept the disciplines which govern all serious studies, and for these, self-realization and an unlimited horizon await. Even those who are not so ambitious have much to gain. Through the esoteric teachings they may soon learn to develop an inner strength and to make contact with the unseen forces of power which lie beyond the intellect.

Count D'Angerville

London, W8

MAN, MYTH AND THE UNCONSCIOUS

The Testimony Of Sanity

I have never quite understood why, through Jung and Freud, we have based our conclusions about the nature of the unconscious so firmly on the experiences of mentally ill patients when the facts - more of them than either Jung or Freud deduced — are to be found and more clearly defined in the experiences of perfectly SANE people. Jung was so moved by the fascinating dream images and dream thoughts of the patients he had examined that he could not help believe the dreams were an expression of a superior wisdom located in the collective unconscious, for they seemed to give insight or knowledge which consciousness has not been able to produce.*

* "Psychology And Religion," page 41.

Jung confirmed, with scientific methods, what teachers of old had always proclaimed, namely, that the memory of mankind lay not only in the very incomplete records of history, but in the depths of the psyche as well in what H. P. Blavatsky several decades earlier called the Akashic records.** The fact that Jung used scientific methods is to his eternal credit, but it did place him in something of a dilemma.

** The mental and emotional history of the planet recorded in the ethers.

Anyone who has read his commentary on The Secret Of The Golden Flower will not doubt that Jung had great insight into Oriental philosophy where he would have quickly discovered that the Hindus and the Buddhists give the age of Man's origin as many millions more than that suggested even by the most enlightened anthropologists of today. Yet, because of his determined scientific bias, he preferred to take the orthodox view of Man's age even though a much older race of man would have given his theories about the unconscious greater credence. He also knew through the substance of The Secret Of The Golden Flower of man's subtle bodies and the fires that maintain their integrity. Jung must also have had a thorough knowledge of the teachings of Theosophy, which gives a detailed exposition of Man, his vehicles of consciousness and his place in the Universe. Certainly, I know for a fact that he had a friend in Beatrice Ensor, a South African Theosophist with whom I often stayed.

Yet, the testimonies of all these groups - Buddhists, Theosophists, Hindus and no doubt others, to say nothing of the proponents of Alchemy itself like Theophrastus Paracelsus - seem to play no part in his assessment of the unconscious, but only the experiences of his sick patients. I find this very peculiar.

It seems to me that Jung's really great contribution to the matter of the unconscious was his understanding of the part played by myth. A considerable part of this book has been given over to the myths and the role they play in directing the consciousness inwards towards wholeness. In fairness to Jung, we must remember that whereas Freud and most modern psychologists regard the unconscious and its subliminal activities as being a personal unconscious stemming from the conscious mind, Jung pointed to its roots lying in the depths of a huge collective unconscious common to all mankind. Freud, for his part, had worked out his theories from experiences mainly with patients under hypnosis.

In Jung's exploration of the myth of Flying Saucers alone, he provided a lead and a measure of sanity to a subject that needed the most careful handling.* Theosophy itself had provided, quite correctly, enough basis in its teachings for the supposition that divine intervention in the Earth Planetary Scheme had already taken place in the coming of the Lords of Flame from Venus, although this was an etheric event. It only needed an Adamsky to point the distressed mind of humanity in the direction of a mythical redemption through an extra-planetary culture far superior to our own. Add to this the inevitable increase in atmospheric phenomena above a society of 4,000 million souls crowding together in a fever of technological advances, and you have a numinosum building up around every unidentified flying object. In addition, the increasing sensitivity of mankind to the etheric world and hierarchies of life using our planet, other than those visible, explains some of the so-called UFO sightings.

Jung acknowledged that there were regions in the psyche based on numinous archetypes which were an inexhaustible source of strength to some and which constituted the Self, and the basis of his psychotherapy was to establish the relationship of the ego with that Self. He would not equate the Self with God, for which we must all be eternally grateful, and said that there was no empirical evidence for its existence but only an emotional foundation which was unassailable by reason.

The purpose of this work is to emphasise that many great beings have proceeded beyond the stage of individuation, or personality integration, and have become identified with the Self. They have not merely left behind their own testimony of events, but have provided records of their experiences, whose validity must at least be given the equivalent consideration as to that for the dreams of mentally sick patients! More than this, such beings have been able to emerge from their hallowed centres and to blend Self with an ego, thus closing the ego-Self axis completely into a unified centre. Their techniques for obtaining such wholeness constitute an integral part of the Mysteries and have stood the test a thousand times of blending brute with Buddhi, of taking consciousness beyond the intellect.

* See The Esoteric Significance Of UFOs by the author.

I would say Their testimonies and Their techniques exist, at the very least, on emotional foundations as unassailable by reason.

At birth, Man does not present merely with an infant body. In the ante-natal period, there is already elaborated in etheric substance (the materials of the first four physical sub-planes, out of a gamut of seven, the lowest three of which are the gas, liquid and solid states of matter) a matrix which creates within itself the pre-physical materials of the embryo, albeit assisted by the paraphernalia of enzymes, RNA molecules, hormones, etc. Something of these pre-physical matrices can be gauged from photographs once taken by the Delawarr Camera in the 1950's or from thought substance photographed at Kohyassan University in Japan in 1913, reproduced here. One might also examine similar phenomena produced by the mind of Ted Serios, investigated by the medical psychiatrist Dr. J. Eisenbud of Denver, whom I met a few years back.

HUMAN FOETUS AT APPROX. 3 MONTH'S PREGNANCY

The patient was in Birmingham when the

photograph was taken at Oxford.

A sample of blood from a three months pregnant woman was sent from Birmingham to Oxford. The Delawarr camera was set up for human foetus, three months. The blood spot was placed in the camera with this result. To the mind of a medically trained observer, features of this photograph which stand out are (i) the closing of the neural canal, (ii) the patency of the posterior fontanelle, (iii) the acromium process of the left scapula, (iv) the non-fused parts of the innonimate bone, etc. It would be hard to imagine that this picture could be faked, except by someone with expert knowledge of embryology and unlimited time at his disposal. Neither of these conditions existed when the photograph was produced.

Now, this sort of evidence does not please modern science who will eventually turn the same evidence up in another form, perhaps a hundred years from now.

There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow!*

* Christopher Morley".

Thus, in subtler states of emotional and mental substance, appropriate sheaths (but not matrices) of physical material hover over and interpenetrate the developing embryo. During life, the organisation of these sheaths into physiological entities with organs, senses and tracts proceeds apace so that by eighteen years of age, the growing personality can be possessed of an integrated emotional body and mental unit. The process of individuation (of Jung) or personality integration (of Esoteric Psychology) brings a blending of all three subtle bodies with the physical :-

Thereafter, through exposure to the testing circumstances of civilised living, the integrated personality can, in a small percentage of cases, seek out the Self and establish an ego-Self dialogue, which may even lead to a total blending of both. Usually, only a few personalities succeed in achieving integration.

In death, the indwelling entity casts off progressively his various vehicles. The etheric body disintegrates almost immediately. The astral body houses the consciousness for some thirty years and then itself disintegrates, surrendering the consciousness to the mental unit, and so on.

Real understanding of Man and his consciousness comes with appreciation of his total structure. The trained occultist always tries to see phenomena, even the phenomenon of consciousness, in terms of the energies which are at play, for, by definition, the occultist is one who deals with the hidden forces of nature . . . and all disciples, even the most mystical, must deal with these energies.

"And what if all of animated nature

Be but organic harps, diversely framed,

That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps

Plastic and vast, one intelligible breeze,

At once the soul of each, and God of ALL?"

Samuel T. Coleridge

Dr. Bach, a Harley Street physician developed a series of remedies in which the 'virtue' of the flower was extracted by placing the blossoms on water in clear sunlight. On one occasion a bottle of the flower remedy 'Honeysuckle' was put on the

Delawarr Camera and the image shown above was produced. Next to it there is shown a picture in colour of a honeysuckle flower. The camera had photographed a pre-physical structure that had remained associated with the remedy long after the actual flower had been discarded.

When a bottle of pilules of the homeopathic remedy Aconite was placed on the Delawarr Camera, the above picture was exposed, showing pre-physical structures of the Aconite flower still related to the pilules.

In Japan in the year 1913, at Kohyasaan University, a powerful mind concentrated for a minute and a half on the letter of the Japanese alphabet". Twenty-five feet away in a separate room, securely wrapped and sealed in a light-proof package, the sensitive surface of a photographic plate underwent a chemical change. The man's thought substance had been photographed.

MATTER IS ENERGY

Within us is a noumenal form or soul that works through a phenomenal body made of matter of the material world . . . which has no real existence at all without that Self.

The physical body is an emptiness and nothingness without the energy transformer of the over-shadowing Soul . . . and we love that body and the material world in which it thrives . . . that material world that enmeshes us, ensnares us, surrounds us with a veil of glamour and diverts our attention from our real being. *

* "The Opening Of The Third Eye" by Dr. Douglas M. Baker.

Ancient Wisdom has always taught that all things, animate or inanimate, can be reduced to energy manifesting at various vibrations. Every object has